Matthew Cohen

9.5

If you are not drinking this producer at these prices you are nuts. Absolutely nuts. Top of the chain quality. Cheap compared to other elite white wines.

Nose is tropical flowers. So elegant. Wafting.

Palate is mountain stream infused with tropical fruit. Mineral. Balanced. Joyously elegant.

Fass selections. — a year ago

Matthew Cohen

9.5

Wow. A stunner.

Nose is fresh peach skin and apricot

Palate is light peach. Balanced but not overtly acidic. Not heavy. Delicious. There is something very elegant about this. A rare tropical wine that is clean but not blowsy or syrupy or unctuous or too much. Almost this sweet beauty on the finish.


As this opens the nose is a unique thing of beauty. Not peach. But peach flowers. A thing of beauty. Nose filling but so elegant. The barest hint of clove maybe gives some complexity. Some minerality comes out on the palate. Maybe some lemon zest. Great elegant texture. A mere kiss of a coating on the palate. Lingering spice.

Bought from fass selections. — 4 years ago

with Lyle

Frank Bragg

9.5

Duck Liver Mousse, Short Rib Stracciatella, Wild Mushroom Fougasse - this wine paired perfectly with all of my carb-filled lunch selections! Can't wait to get home and buy some!! — 7 years ago

Andrew Schirmer

9.5

Stunning at this stage. Honeyed, a bit of reduction, dense palate & fabulous texture. Honeydew melon, minerals, just so easy to love. No flab. These n rhone whites can be so over-egged; Stephane’s wines are clean, enticing, and evocative. Lovely work @Lyle Fass Fass Selections Rhone portfolio. — a year ago

with Alsu

Ryan Vento

9.1

What a great surprise it was to finally meet @Shay A and his family in-person, and at Classic no less! Both he and my wife coordinated a surprise tasting to help ring in my 30th birthday and it was on-point 👌🏻 15 wines, all Alexander Vineyards’ private labels or selections from other producers in their portfolio. All really fun to taste and talk about.

As for this champagne, arguably my WOTN 🥂 — 5 years ago

with Shay and Krystal

Carolyn Korb

9.2

Fresh beautiful and delicious — 8 years ago

with shane

Matthew Cohen

9.5

Miracle shit. Tropical bit elegant and mineral.

Bought from fass selections. — 3 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.7

Nose: elegant tropicality. Really pretty. Tropical fruit flower perfume. As this opens persistent white flowers. Then it gets this perfect melange. Wow.

Ok fuck it. This crosses the 9.5 line based on the nose. It just has that perfectness about it. Like elite burgundy good. Oh my god good.

Ok. As this opens the nose is some fucking crazy shit. Like some extracted umami floral crazy thing you get with 15 year old perfectly aged wine. What the FUCK!?!?!

Palate has this vibrant zing. Mineral. An echo of honey. Delicious. But in a classy way. Not forward or trashy.

As this opens more mineral made from tropical fruit flowers. Elegantly crunchy. So good

Wow. Stunning wine. Gorgeous. If this had more depth it would be stratospheric. [fuck that - based on the nose it crosses the 9.5 line]. [2 hours in - Fuck the density. This is insane]

Bought from fass selections — 3 years ago

Al Shikoh

9.0

pale ruby with tawny rim; raspberry, mineral, faint floral notes; soft, feminine, 13% ABV; nice village level red Burgundy, a Robert Kacher selection — 5 years ago

Merritt Santino Raül Gilé

9.0

Another gem from my Dad's DRINK NOW selections. This one smelled like jet fuel out of the bottle, but is still really put together and delicious after a few min. Was not expecting that. Well done Bob. — 8 years ago

with Alison